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week's edition include:
** Obama's swine flu scare after shaking hands with archaeologist who died
24 hours later
Their alarm grew after learning that Felipe Solis, director of the National
Anthropology Museum, had died from pneumonia
** Turner Prize shortlist announcement sparks customary war of words
The traditional eight months of feverish bickering and self-aggrandising
debate began in earnest on April 28 after this year's quartet of nominees
for the Turner Prize 2009 was announced
** Bottle message a mystery - survivor
A Holocaust survivor whose name was found in a bottled message on the
grounds of Auschwitz this week said the discovery was a "mystery" to him
** I am Henry VIII online
A Tudortastic Twitter site has been set up to record the events leading up
to Henry VIII's coronation on June 24 in real-time
** Getty Trust to slash budget and lay off 97 workers
Interviewed last month, Getty Trust President James Wood said he was
unwilling to put off budget cuts and risk a "fall off a huge cliff" if the
global economic malaise lingers and the Getty, which never has cultivated
donors as most nonprofit arts groups do, continues to see its investment
earnings decline
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** £6m to explore stories of yore
Ideas for the projects will stem from the youngsters who will use the
collections from the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council, which is backing
the event, as a starting point
** Acropolis museum to open in June
The three-level museum, with a total area of 25,000 square metres, includes
a section reserved for the disputed Parthenon Marbles, currently at the
British Museum in London
** William Blake: The art of a 'lunatic'?
If beside the stupid and mad-brained political project of their rulers, the
sane part of the people of England required fresh proof of the alarming
increase of the effects of insanity, they will be too well convinced from
its having lately spread into the hitherto sober region of art
** Money talk at conventions for museum professionals
When roughly 5,000 museum professionals from across the country descended on
Philadelphia this week for two conventions, they represented institutions
that exhibit everything from Old Masters to old rocks
** There's Trouble At' Mill
In 1851 there was a huge mill fire at what was the biggest mill in Europe at
the time, on the site where the shopping centre now sits, and we have some
fantastic pictures and carvings depicting the fire with the explosions in
the background
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** UK Taxpayers insure £500 million Turner paintings sent to China
Ministers have admitted that 112 major works of art, valued at £658 million,
have had to be insured by the taxpayer after private sponsorship for the
exchange project evaporated in the recession
** Waking the Baby Mammoth
She is the most perfectly preserved woolly mammoth ever discovered and she
has mesmerized the scientific world with her arrival - creating headlines
across the globe
** WWII-era dive-bomber lifted from Lake Michigan, to be restored under
museum salvage programs
A dive bomber that had ditched in Lake Michigan on a training run in 1944
was brought to land Friday for restoration in Florida for the National World
War II Museum in New Orleans
** New spy museum a no-go for non-Chinese
A new Chinese spy museum exhibits guns disguised as lipstick, hollowed-out
coins used to conceal documents and maps hidden as a deck of cards
** Terengganu to celebrate International Museums Day
The director-general, Ibrahim Ismail, said the objectives were to forge
close ties between the public and the department's staff and to turn museums
into a visitor-friendly place
** Dortmund wins race for German Soccer Museum
In a classic Ruhr valley derby, Dortmund pips Gelsenkirchen to become the
home to the new 30 million euro German Football Museum, which the German
Football Federation (DFB) hopes to open in 2012
** Van Dyck's Climb to the Top
The arrival of an artist from Antwerp in the melting pot that London was
throughout the 17th century was not particularly surprising
** Unexploded WWII bomb found at German museum site
An unexploded Second World War-era bomb weighing 100 kilograms was
discovered on Friday by construction workers near Berlin's Neues Museum and
police evacuated a surrounding area that includes Chancellor Angela Merkel's
flat
** Signs of earliest Scots drinking discovered
Pint glasses were unearthed in a ploughed field in South Lanarkshire, and
the discovery conjures up a picture of wandering groups of drinkers, making
their way home to their pibrochs after the Ice Age's closing time
** The Hobbit: Out of Africa
Earlier this month, researchers presented work at the annual meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, in Chicago, suggesting
that H. floresiensis may have left Africa a full million years earlier than
any other hominids were thought to have ventured out from the home continent
** Social Media - Improve Your Social Media KnowHow
With just over 5 weeks to go plans for the London based Social Media
Exchange for the Cultural and Heritage Sectors are really taking shape
** International Museum Day 2009
ICOM and WFFM launch International Museum Day 2009 on "Museums and Tourism"
** Bug Fair
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of our multi-legged friends.
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